In Milton Friedman’s “An Open Letter to Bill Bennett” he attempts to convince Bennett that the United States needs to be handling the “war on drugs” in a different manner. In Friedman’s concise letter he brings up the unnecessary measures Continue reading
In “An Open Letter to Bill Bennett,” Milton Friedman challenges the current status of the drug war and offers a libertarian solution through careful use of literary devices to influence his audience. He uses precise word choice, creative sentence construction, Continue reading
In Milton Friedman’s, “An open letter to Bill Bennett” he uses many rhetorical strategies to argue his point and persuade Bill Bennett that the ways he is trying to solve the drug crisis are doing the very opposite. He starts Continue reading
In response to the nationwide announcement of an anti-drug campaign by George H. Bush, Milton Friedman wrote “An Open Letter to Bill Bennett” in hopes of not only deferring, but calling a cease to this war on drugs. Through Friedman’s Continue reading
Reading with an analytical eye for a rhetorical analysis requires understanding the purpose in which the author is writing for and seeing how they write in order to achieve that goal. It takes into account the language, evidence, structure and much Continue reading
“An Open Letter to Bill Bennett” is a letter that advocates for the decriminalization of drugs. It was written in 1989 when George H. Bush was proposing to launch his nearly $3 billion anti-drug campaign on September 5, 1989 where Continue reading
Milton Friedman’s letter to Bill Bennett, the ‘drug expert’ of the George H.W. Bush administration, is an attempt to persuade Bennett towards the legalization of drugs in the United States, for which there are several different rhetorical strategies employed. The Continue reading
Who is Milton Friedman? Well known in the economics world, Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis in 1976, however, he has a very strong opinion when it comes to public policy. Continue reading
In terms of Selzer’s article, rhetorical analysis can be understood as “an effort to understand how people within specific social situations attempt to influence others through language (Selzer 280-81). In other words, through rhetorical analysis, readers can get a better Continue reading
Before analyzing a text it is important to know what our subject is. The letter was written by Milton Friedman who was an American economist and statistician best known for his strong belief in free-market capitalism. Also, he was a Continue reading
